The Technology Diffusion of Medical Device Industry in China: A Case Study on HCPT

摘要

Recent years, the medical device industry has developed quickly, and expenditures on the technological innovation have increased obviously as well in China. However, diffusion of some new technologies encounters great obstacles which frustrate the investors in deed due to the special characters of industry. Under the framework set by Rogers 1983, we analyze the characters of innovation diffusion of medicine device industry in China, and discuss non-technological barriers encountered in the process; also a case study of HCPT's diffusion process from 1998 to 2006 is discussed in this paper.